Serious A5025 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 26 August 1985 at 16:08 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey at 16:08 on Monday 26 August 1985. All four casualties were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Aug 1985
- Monday, 16:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40947, longitude -4.45371, in the LL67 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985600A01084
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5025
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 1 June 2002
At the same spotRef 2002600AN3023
Serious
Car crash on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 28 January 1981
At the same spotRef 1981600A01003
Slight
Car crash on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 16 July 1998
22 m awayRef 1998600AN3032
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 5 September 2002
42 m awayRef 2002600AN3053
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 4 May 2007
57 m awayRef 2007600AN3029
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A5025 on the Isle of Anglesey, 11 December 2009
63 m awayRef 2009609233411
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 17, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1985600A01084 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Anglesey road accident statistics for 1985.